Vulnerability · Published Jan 7, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-23241
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 13.3% (higher than 96% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Nuclei.
Severity (CVSS NVD)5.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)13.3%top 3.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack tooling1Nuclei
Official description
MERCUSYS Mercury X18G 1.0.5 devices allow Directory Traversal via ../ in conjunction with a loginLess or login.htm URI (for authentication bypass) to the web server, as demonstrated by the /loginLess/../../etc/passwd URI.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.mercusys.com/en/ x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/BATTZION/MY_REQUEST/blob/master/Mercury%20Router%20Web%20Server%20Directory%20Traversal.md x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.mercurycom.com.cn/product-521-1.html x_refsource_MISC